Four Board Members Named To Children's Support Group

NAMES & FACES - LAURA SIMON

Friends of Abused Children, the volunteer support group of the Guardian Ad Litem program in Palm Beach County, has named four members to its board of directors.

They are: Alfred Zucaro, a West Palm Beach city commissioner; Rachele Scholes, reporter and weekend anchor at WPTV-Ch. 5; Peter Polakoff, vice president of Ryan Beck & Co.; and Jeff Conshafter, a publicist.

The group is a safety net and emergency resource for needy children and their families in the program throughout Palm Beach County.

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The Boynton Beach Lions Club recently donated $8,000 to Southeastern Guide Dogs. The money sponsored a guide dog, Comet, for Richard Rauter of West Palm Beach.

Southeastern Guide Dogs has provided professionally trained guide dogs to blind people since 1982. It is one of 10 training centers in the United States and is supported solely by public contributions.

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Taste of the Town, in which 17 south Florida restaurants participated, raised more than $23,000 for the American Cancer Society during the event at the Town Center mall in Boca Raton.

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Barbara Frade, a graduate student enrolled in the fine arts program at Florida Atlantic University, has received a $1,000 scholarship from Women in the Visual Arts.

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Philip M. Sprinkle, a shareholder in the law firm of Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, has accepted the chairmanship for the second year of the Greater West Palm Beach Healthy Choice American Heart Walk scheduled for Oct. 5.

The 5K pledge walk to benefit the American Heart Association begins at Meyer's Amphitheater in Centennial Park and continues north to Currie Park.

Approximately 2,500 walkers will unite in hopes of raising more than $100,000.

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Dr. Stephanie C. Holt, a pathologist at Boca Raton Community Hospital, has been elected chairwoman of the board of directors of Community Blood Centers of South Florida.

Holt attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed a fellowship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. In 1988, Holt joined Boca Raton Community Hospital, where she is the director of Transfusion Services.

Community Blood Centers of South Florida, a nonprofit blood collection agency, provides more than 100,000 pints of blood each year for hospital and kidney dialysis patients.

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Marvin A. Kirsner, a partner with Goldberg & Young in Fort Lauderdale, has been re-elected secretary of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.